Mixing beats

[young swoosh]

just started mixing my beats down track for track, one track for the kick , one for the snare, one for bass. etc... soundz way tighter to me. Does everyone else do this or does it take up too much time? Holla back with any thoughts.

 

[phil]

how the fuck were you doing it before??

 

[young swoosh]

mixing beats

i was sequencing everything in the mpc, then mixing down to a stereo wave file. The beats sounded clean but not every part stood out. Know what i mean.

 

[Fratricide]

Generally you should track each instrument by itself.That's how its done in a professional studio by a professional producer/engineer.How ever I have cheated as you posted above for a quick mix to stereo wave. For some impatient mathapuckaz.

 

[BIG J]

I prefer to track out all my beats like that. But for a rough mix of something I just sequenced I'll record a stereo track. That way if I sell the beat later on down the road, I can format it to the clients liking, and not have to deal with tracking out everything all over again.

 

[phil]

oh i see what you mean my bad.

 

[Mr. D-Sane]

I prefer to track out all my beats like that. But for a rough mix of something I just sequenced I'll record a stereo track. That way if I sell the beat later on down the road, I can format it to the clients liking, and not have to deal with tracking out everything all over again.

Same here. Also.....I used to record track by track all the way through. Now I try to get away with 4 bar sections as much as possible and edit as necessary (this is especially good for drums). I still record full length files sometimes though if a loop isn't gonna work because it may cut the wave off and make it sound like shit.

Doin' it like this saves time and hard drive space! Plus it cuts down on file size and makes for easier archiving.

 

[BIG J]

^I've been tryin' to do it like that lately to save some space on my hard drive

 

[DarkSide Record]

how ya'll record it to ever track on the mixer? I aint up there yet, I just fuck wit the beat on my keyboard and record it offa there

 

[young swoosh]

Darkside, what i'm talkin bout is using multitrack recording equip.
For example Roland VS-1680, Akai DPS 16 or a computer with multitrack software like Cubase, Pro tools, cakewalk, etc. Then recording every midi sequence track off ur keyboard onto it's own audio track in the recorder. So that every sound gets its own channel for effects or eq.